[Tutor] Best Practices with JSON Data

Michael Selik michael.selik at gmail.com
Sun May 8 13:26:46 EDT 2016


On Sun, May 8, 2016, 12:34 PM Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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>
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> I am intending to start work on a Python program that will allow me to
> better manage my Digital Ocean droplets, due to the fact that the website
> can be at times a bit overkill for some of the basic tasks I want to do. I
> have a question in regards to the best practice of manipulating JSON data.
> Would it be better to just parse the data that Digital Ocean returns as a
> result of doing such things as a Get command, or would it be better to
> create a Droplet class with functionality specific to Droplets? The reason
> I
> am asking is due to the fact that I haven't found any good information on
> the topic, so am not sure of the Pythonic or standard way to do this.
>

Go the route of least complexity until you need to refactor. Start with
basic collections. Define a class later, if ever.

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